Operational Policies

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Determine how to have vRealize Operations Manager monitor your objects, and how to notify you about problems that occur with those objects.

vRealize Operations Manager Administrators assign policies to object groups and applications to support Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and business priorities. When you use policies with object groups, you ensure that the rules defined in the policies are quickly put into effect for the objects in your environment.

With policies, you can:

Enable and disable alerts.

Control data collections by persisting or not persisting metrics on the objects in your environment.

Configure the product analytics and thresholds.

Monitor objects and applications at different service levels.

Prioritize policies so that the most important rules override the defaults.

Understand the rules that affect the analytics.

Understand which policies apply to object groups.

vRealize Operations Manager includes a library of built-in active policies that are already defined for your use. vRealize Operations Manager applies these policies in priority order.

When you apply a policy to an object group, vRealize Operations Manager collects data from the objects in the object group based on the thresholds, metrics, super metrics, attributes, properties, alert definitions, and problem definitions that are enabled in the policy.

The following examples of policies might exist for a typical IT environment.

Maintenance: Optimized for ongoing monitoring, with no thresholds or alerts.